The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. by Various
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[9] ERRATA in one of our correspondent's "Legal for "six beaches," read "six braches." for "book ycleped," read "_bock ylered_." for "token" read "_teken_." for "Hamelyn" read "_Howelin_." Corrected from Blount's _Tenures_, p. 665, ed. 1815. A print of Westminster Hall, by Mosely, from a drawing made by Gravelot, who died in 1773, bears the following versified inscription:-- "When fools fall out, for ev'ry flaw, They run horn mad to go to law, A hedge awry, a wrong plac'd gate, Will serve to spend a whole estate. Your case the lawyer says is good, And justice cannot he withstood; By tedious process from above, From office they to office move, Thro' pleas, demurrers, the dev'l and all, At length they bring it to the _Hall_; The dreadful hall by Rufus rais'd, For lofty Gothick arches prais'd. "The _first of Term_, the fatal day, |
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